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To use this feature you must register a personal account in My ICL. Registration is free! In My ICL you can save your ICL searches in My Searches, and you can save search results in My Collections. Be sure to use the Held Citations feature to collect citations from an entire search session. Read more search tips.

Set up e-mailed alerts: When you save a search you are prompted to set up alerts that match your searches; you can even choose the day and frequency of e-mailed alerts.

~ Advanced Search ~

New in 2016!: Users now have the option to automatically generate Vancouver style citations into a text document; see Text (Citation) in Download options, below.

Type words or phrases in the default All Fields, or limit your search to specific fields, using the pull-down menus beside the search boxes. Combine terms in the search boxes using the Boolean operators AND, OR or NOT.

Author searches: Click on a specific name in the Author Index to place it in a search box, or enter author last name in the pull-down Author field.

Subject searches: Click on terms in the Subject Index to place them in the search boxes, or enter a subject word or phrase ("in quotation marks") in the pull-down Subject Keyword field. A word or phrase entered in the Subject Keyword field retrieves all Subject Headings containing that word or phrase.
You may also search for subject headings and their definitions in ICL's thesaurus, Chiropractic Subject Headings (ChiroSH).

Limiters: Limit searches by journal, year of publication, peer review or publication type. Limit before searching.
Note: Non peer reviewed citations include book reviews, letters, and most editorials.

Search histories: ICL automatically creates a search history. Click the Search History tab, check relevant search statements, then combine them using AND, OR, or NOT from the pull-down menu. To save your search history, click on the Search History tab, select the search statements, and click Send to My Searches.

Managing search results: To collect citations during a search session, check the ones you want to keep from your search results, then click Hold Citations. Click the tab Held Citations to view your collection. You may then Display Abstracts, List, Print, Download or E-mail all or part of your collection. You may also send your collection to My Collections in My ICL and save it permanently.

Web Links and Abstracts: Links to journal articles (sometimes full text) or PubMed records are provided where available. ICL includes abstracts where available, with the permission of the journal publishers. Please report broken links to the ICL Editors.